Do you sometimes think "Did I used to be that way?"

donny

I have been out of the "org" for over 16 years now and I have pretty much left the JW menatality behind. I have a JW who works for me and he rarely talks about his faith, but last Thrusday was an exception. He was all happy in telling me how the organization was growing and how the "faithful slave" was revealing new light for the brothers and how he feels that something big is on the horizon. After his speel he left the office and I sat there for a moment and thought "Man, did I used to sound like that?" I am sure I did, but now I really understand how bizarre I must have sounded to "wordly people."

Don

jwfacts

I think it all the time. I often sit in disbelief at comments I read from the Watchtower and wonder if I really accepted what I read and how on earth I possibly could have.

sspo

We all did for many decades and when i look back i cannot beleive i was so stupid in accepting the crap from the watchtower

and not acting and leaving the cult earlier for all the douts i used to have.

WTWizard

I know I would think something big was on the horizon, and they consistently said that Armageddon was probably going to be within a few months to a couple of years. After a few no-shows, I realized that nothing was ever going to happen except that the Washtowel was going to keep bumbling along.

Quandry

I KNOW I sounded that way.

I really didn't like door-to-door work because few people were home. So I decided to focus more on informal witnessing. Of course, this meant to people who could not close the door. Like those I worked with. I started studies with several of them. They didn't continue. Must have just been my prattling on.

This also applied to the other moms at my child's school as we waited for class to start each morning. I started a study there, and turned her over to pioneers. Don't know how that turned out.

I took a class at the local community college and asked the students what their goal was. I brought each of them an Awake magazine with something that applied (or so I thought) to their chosen career.

At least all of that was better than continuously knocking on the same doors when no one was at home. I would try to be creative. Now, since they are so against higher education, and this leads to menial jobs cleaning alone at night, how can a JW find ways to speak to people?

Frequent_Fader_Miles

I work with a JW who doesn't know I'm faded. Many times I marvel at her brainwashed thinking and wonder if I truly seemed the same to others when I was in.

Just recently she went on a rant about the movie "The pursuit of Happyness". Her claim is that the movie's name should really be "The Pursuit of Money" Her reasoning was is that there were soooo many other jobs Will Smith could've taken up instead of fighting so hard to become a stockbroker. She argued that he put his son at risk just because of a stupid job. Rather than be inspired by his persistence, drive and willingness to work hard ... she thought he should've cleaned toilets for a living.

All of this dribble came from a woman who left her previous job to take up one that pays more money .... darn hypocrite!